TS:Victorian Tudor Gothicvs Neo New-Elizabethan Gothic Tudor
you decide!! yay!!![…]

One of the more arresting and memorable exhibits at Bilbao’s glorious Guggenheim for me was Pierre Huyghe’s ‘One Million Landscapes’ from 2001, the somewhat retro-futurist CGI reminiscent of Shynola and Alex Rutterford‘s[…]

The return of Black Books did a very neat thing. It reminded us of the relationship of the three characters by splitting them up. It also did a tremendous sight gag without ever having to show it. The plot was simple. While Fran was on holiday, Berna[…]

THE ICK FACTOR: confirmed
There were always two problems with my First Iron Law of Cinema, that “No Good Film Has Ever Been Made by Someone Whose Name Ends in the Letters I C K”: i: You had to do some fancy (not to say fraudulent) spellin[…]

Infernal Affairs starts with a quote from the Buddha regarding the nature of continuous hell being like hell, but goes on forever. This quote potentially exists merely to justify the otherwise relatively tortuous title. The title, like the film, is a[…]

wive$watch:
if you had any gumption you switched over to bbc2[…]

So last night in Hustle the gang organised a complex art scam which involved them getting a master forger to invent a new Mondrian which they could pass off as the real thing briefly to a sharp tongued art expert. To do this they had to steal an actu[…]

He was a ponytailed Japanese wrestler-turned-fence, on kidney dialysis; she was a grave and grey-haired curator-scholar with an impish smile… Art Crimes told the story of Anne Roever-Kann of Bremen Museum, and how (with the help of New York art[…]

Take The Daytrippers and mix it with Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking, and you get Pieces Of April. The Daytrippers is the family journey part, as the go from suburbia to New York to see wayward daughter April. What’s Cooking is the[…]

I am not very Charmed
Someone I was shagging a couple of years back was friends with the script editor on Charmed. I found it difficult to find a single good thing to say to him about his friend’s work. The episode rerun tonight is a particular[…]